New A2 (to me)

Michael123 said:
Hi to everyone,

I took delivery of my A2 on Wednesday of this week, after owning it for just 2 days I asked my local garage to check it over, as I expected with 17 year old car to at least need a few odd consumer bits, brake pads, light bulbs etc. Well within 15 minutes I get a phone call informing me that the engine was blown!
You can't imagine how deflated I felt, the car had been delivered from the Trader I bought it from in Blackburn to my home in Lincolnshire. It had 94,000 miles a full service history a current Mot and appearance wise, tidy bodywork, really clean interior, reasonably good tyres and so on.
Over the two days I'd driven all of 20miles with no real issues, yes the brake pad warning light came on a couple of times and it ran a little erratic on tick-over, but nothing that gave me cause for undue concern.
I hold my hand up that I bought it unseen, this is due to the inability to leave my home at the moment due to the circumstance that we all find ourselves in.
Sorry to ramble on, but my question is a 'blown engine' for this to happen should there have at least been some form of warning, overheating, poor running, warning lights? As you can probably tell I'm quite mechanically inept.
I'm now faced with either a struggle with the Trader I bought the car from (his first reaction to the news was "it was okay when it left me") or find a solution to the problem.
Has any A2 owner had to deal with a blown engine?
Is it possible or economical to repair, rebuild or replace an engine?
Any comments or advice would be most helpful.....
Thanks
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It is unlikely to be blown. The guy who checked it probably has no A2 experience.
unless it is belching blue smoke, rattles like crazy or has zero compression it is likely to be something fixable.
mid it had blown then there is no way that you would have been able to drive it the few miles that you did.
I would recommend getting a second opinion from someone who KNOWS the A2. Before you decide the action to take.
steve B
 
simon martyn said:
Come on all, we surely can't let this thing get scrapped? I'm down in Oxfordshire so am unable.
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Unfortunately, even as a breaker for me its just not economically viable. Due to the distance involved in getting it collected it wouldn't even break even.
 
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